TWD Comic - RIP

[Bronn]

For those that didn't know, The Walking Dead comic has come to an end with today's issue, #193.

I thought it was a good ending.

This is the only comic series I've ever really followed so closely, and until the end.

RIP

[CRA]

so spoil the ending for us. 

Did they all die? 

Did they just leave to wonder the nation? I mean they are the walking dead?

Did they find a cure? 

[Bronn]

Well, two issues ago Rick got shot at the end.

One issue ago, he died. Carl found him and killed him again.

In the final issue, we're a good number of years into the future. Carl and Sophia are together, living on a farm. They have a daughter named Andrea. Their neighbor is an elderly Earl Sutton.

It is revealed that Carl is basically a runner, in that he takes messages and supplies out to the satellite communities within the safe zone.

A walker stumbles through their farm and Carl kills it. He heads into town (Alexandria) to find Hershel (Maggie and Glenn's son) operating a sideshow cart showing "The Walking Dead." It is revealed that the walker Carl killed was one of Hershel's that escaped.

The two have words after Carl pops Hershel in the face. Carl tells him that he killed the escaped walker, and that Hershel shouldn't be bringing them into the safe zone like that.

Carl goes home but the local sheriff is sent out to summon him back for a hearing. Hershel is basically suing him for property damage for killing the walker.

Carl returns to town for his hearing. "President" Maggie shows up and talks to the judge, and the resolution is that Carl has to get a new walker for Hershel on his next run. Apparently walkers are rare now, and are only found outside the safe zone.

Before he leaves town, Carl goes back and kills the rest of the walkers in Hershel's cart.

On his run, he meets up with Lydia. They make their way around delivering supplies. We see a place where Negan is obviously living by himself. Carl hopes to meet him, but apparently Negan disappears when Carl comes to bring supplies. Nobody answers the door. We also see Eugene, who's working on rebuilding the railroad connecting the communities. We also see Dwight's ex, Laura, who still harbors some resentment towards Carl and Rick. At one point, Lydia seemingly tries to seduce Carl during an overnight encampment, for old time's sake, but he's not having it.

Carl returns home. Sophia's pretty pissed that he killed the rest of the walkers, and the law shows up again to take Carl away. This time he's going to Commonwealth for his hearing.

We see Michonne, now the ruling judge in the Commonwealth. She's overseeing Carl's hearing, and her judgment is that he's free to go, and she outlaws holding walkers for entertainment and/or other purposes.

Carl returns home once again, and reads Andrea a bedtime story. The story is about how the dead returned, people got scared, some turned bad, some rallied people together, etc. Basically, it is a story covering everything, and about how people like Rick Grimes were the reason that they survived. During the story overview we get images of other people who survived. Jesus and Aaron. Negan. The guard guy from the Commonwealth and Princess. The guy who killed Rick, sitting in a jail cell with his mother, the former Governor of the Commonwealth, outside it.

Carl tells Andrea that she would have liked him, that he was her grandfather, and she replies that she knows because he tells her every time.  She then tells him to read it again.

The ending page is a picture of Carl in the chair with Andrea in his lap, reading the story.



TLDR: Pretty much everyone interesting from the comic survives. Carl and Sophia have a kid. Maggie's kid is a spoiled brat. Eugene is still Eugene-ing. The dead aren't really a threat anymore. No cure. Rick's buried beside Andrea (the elder, obviously,) and is basically a hero of legend. He's got a statue in the Commonwealth.

[Shocker]

Reading back through them now...never finished them in a prior read.  Hate it is ending...great stuff.

The read comics online website is fuggin great.  Free reads in HD no less.